It is one thing to be like Greta Garbo, who famously declared in her Swedish accent, “I vant to be alone.” It is quite another matter to be lonely. Especially now, as we emerge from a year of COVID isolation, many people feel like they are lacking companionship. Three in five working Americans regard themselves […]
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8 Sensible Strategies to Reduce Pre-Travel Anxiety
Advice from me to me — that you might find useful, too. This piece also appears on Medium. 11 June 2021: My Dream I am frazzled and not yet packed. With me are two young women I know from the dog park. We went to the French Open, Roland Garros, two days earlier. I wonder what they’re doing in […]
A 45-Year-Old Scolds Tech Companies!
Geezers don’t despair. Younger people feel it, too! “Tech is now for all of us, and yet the tech companies keep focusing on the nerds who want fancy gadgets.” Other than the fact that she starts out by apologizing for sounding like “a grumpy old man” (ageist stereotype)… I was thrilled to read New York […]
My Vision: A Poem Written When It Felt Like I Was Losing It
Introduction: Time Traveling with My Gerbil Brain My computer is a mess, and my brain is hyperactive. Everyday, I write something other than what I’m meant to be working on. It could be the germ of an idea or awareness, advice, a slice of my own life; a bit of prose or poetry, snippets of […]
Tired of Fighting About Household Chores?
The Winning Strategy That Will Save Your Relationship This post also appears on Medium “When Cleaning Windows,” 1943. Photo by Austrian National Library on Unsplash A Half-Century of Chore Wars It all started in the 70s, the result of that new-fangled notion of “gender equity.” Before that, men and women had defined roles. Mothers […]